From CASS
Journal Club Meetings
The meetings take place on Fridays from 12:00 - 1:00pm in 329 SERF. Pizza and sodas are served.
Everybody is welcome to attend and/or present. The meetings generally cover recent interesting journal articles or conference reports, and may introduce the topic of next week's seminar or a speaker's own results.
Contact: Nathan Johnson
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Spring 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 01/13/2012 | Evan Grohs, UCSD-CASS | "Dark Radiation in the Early Universe"
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| 01/20/2012 | Agnieszka Cieplak & Aaron Day, UCSD-CASS | Cieplak's: TBA Day's: "The Lyman-Alpha Forest in a Blazar-Heated Universe”
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| 01/27/2012 | Kit Lee, UCSD-CASS | "Revisiting the Grand Design Spiral Galaxies"
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| 02/03/2012 | Alison Coil, Kim Griest & Adam Burgasser, UCSD-CASS | "How to Referee a Paper"
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| 02/10/2012 | Aleks Diamond-Stanic & Eric Michelsen, UCSD-CASS | Diamond-Stanic's: "The Biggest Black Holes in the Universe"; Michelsen's: "What's Not Wrong with Faster-than-Light Neutrinos"
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| 02/24/2012 | Stephen Smith & Geoffrey So, UCSD-CASS |
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| 03/02/2012 | Doron Lemze, Johns Hopkins University |
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| 03/09/2012 | JJ Cherry, UCSD-CASS |
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| 03/16/2012 | Nathan Miller, UCSD-CASS |
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Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 09/23/2011 | Carl Melis, UCSD-CASS | "Insight into extrasolar rocky planets from white dwarf stars"
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| 09/30/2011 | James Aird, UCSD-CASS | "The dependence of AGN accretion on host stellar mass and color"
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| 10/07/2011 | Alex Mendez, UCSD-CASS | "The Major and Minor Galaxy Merger Rates at z<1.5"
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| 10/14/2011 | Paul Hemphill, UCSD-CASS | "Attempts to reconcile recent results in the direct detection of dark matter"
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| 10/21/2011 | Katie Richardson, UNM | "Dark Matter Parameters from Neutrino Telescopes"
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| 10/28/2011 | Liz Rivers, UCSD-CASS | "Exploring the Geometry of Accreting Material in Active Galactic Nuclei"
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| 11/04/2011 | Marcel Neeleman, UCSD-CASS | "Star Formation: Is Molecular Gas a Necessity?"
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| 11/18/2011 | [SPECIAL ASTRO SEMINAR] Sugata Kaviraj, Sr. Research Fellow, Oxford University | "Early-type galaxies: the last 8 billion years"
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| 12/02/2011 | George Fuller, UCSD-CASS | "Neutrinos: Cosmic Tricksters?"
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Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 04/22/2011 | Rick Wagner, UC San Diego | "The Density PDF of Molecular Clouds and the Core Fragmentation Mass Function"
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| 05/06/2011 | Kyle Stewart, Postdoctoral Scholar JPL | "Observable Signatures of Gas Accretion in Galaxy Halos"
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| 05/27/2011 | Dr. Bryan Penprase, Pomona College | "Low-metallicity DLA" |
Winter 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 01/21/2011 | Hai Fu, Caltech | "Galaxy Mergers: Black Hole Accretion, Star Formation, and Feedback"
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| 01/28/2011 | Gerard Stephenson, Jr., Adjunct Professor Physics & Astronomy UNM | "Dark energy from interacting fermions"
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| 02/11/2011 | Eyal Kazin, Graduate Student NYU | "The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Redshift Distortions in the SDSS and BOSS LRG Samples"
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| 02/18/2011 | Robert da Silva, Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz | "Bridges to Understanding Merging Galaxies" |
Fall 2010 & Earlier
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 11/03/2009 | Richard Rothschild, UCSD-CASS | "X-ray Spectroscopy of the High Mass X-ray Binary GX 301-2"
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| 11/10/2009 | [SPECIAL ASTRO SEMINAR] Edward Jenkins, Princeton University | "The Distribution of Thermal Pressures in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium of our Galaxy"
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| 11/17/2009 | Marcel Haas | "Nature vs. Nurture in Galaxy Formation Simulations"
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| 11/24/2009 | Kate Rubin | "The Kinematics and Geometry of Galactic Winds at z~1"
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| 12/01/2009 | No Journal Club |
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| 12/08/2009 | Robyn Sanderson, MIT | "Galaxy Mergers in Phase Space"
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| 01/08/2010 | JJ Cherry, UCSD-CASS | "What does the Higgs boson have to do with reverse causation?"
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| 01/15/2010 | Adam Burgasser, UCSD-CASS | "Women in Astronomy 2009: Report for the Baltimore Meeting"
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| 01/22/2010 | No Journal Club |
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| 01/29/2010 | David Collins, UCSD-CASS | "Testing Magnetic Star Formation Theory"
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| 02/05/2010 | Nate Miller, UCSD-CASS | "Past, Present, and Future of CMB Polarization Experiments"
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| 02/12/2010 | No Journal Club |
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| 02/19/2010 | Journal Club Cancelled | Special Astro Seminar 12:00-1:00PM in SERF 280
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| 02/26/2010 | Rebekah Hounsell, Liverpool John Moores Univ. | "Classical and Recurrent Novae"
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| 03/05/2010 | Marc Rafelski, UCSD-CASS | "New Results at High Redshift Enabled by the Latest Hubble Servicing Mission"
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| 03/12/2010 | Meir Shimon, UCSD-CASS | "WMAP7"
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| 04/02/10 | Alex Mendez, UCSD-CASS | "Gravitational Waves and LIGO."
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| 04/09/10 | Geoffrey So, UCSD-CASS | "A Brief Overview of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations"
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| 04/16/10 | Nathan Johnson, UCSD-CASS | "Using G-dot to Constrain Theories with Extra Dimensions"
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| 04/23/10 | Andrew West, Boston Univ. | "Big science from little stars: What we can learn from the Volkswagens of the Milky Way"
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| 04/30/10 | Jonathan Whitmore, UCSD-CASS | "Spectrographs HIRES and UVES: Not good enough"
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| 05/07/10 | Liz Rivers, UCSD-CASS | "Active Galactic Nuclei: A Broadband Overview"
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| 05/14/10 | Kim Griest, UCSD-CASS | "Theories of Dark Energy"
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| 05/21/10 | Darcy Barron, UCSD-CASS | "Using CMB Polarization Telescopes for Galactic Plane Surveys"
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| 05/28/10 | Slawomir Suchy, UCSD-CASS | "Atmospheric Halos et al."
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| 06/04/10 | Wendell Misch, UCSD-CASS | "Nuclear De-exitation into Neutrino Pairs: A Relaxing Introduction"
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| 10/01/2010 | No Journal Club |
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| 10/08/2010 | JJ Cherry, UCSD-CASS | "State of the Art Supernova Modeling: Welcome to the Jungle"
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| 10/15/2010 | Daniel Stern, JPL | "The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey: From Brown Dwarfs to Reionization, and Everything In Between"
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| 10/22/2010 | Various | TASC Practice Talks
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| 10/29/2010 | No Journal Club |
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| 11/5/2010 | Evan Grohs, UCSD-CASS | "Weak Interactions in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis"
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| 11/12/2010 | Agnieszka Cieplak, UCSD-CASS | *CANCELLED*
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| 11/19/2010 | David Atlee, OSU | "The AGN Star Formation Connection in Clusters of Galaxies From Multiwavelength Photometry"
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| 11/26/2010 | No Journal Club | Thanksgiving Break
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| 12/03/2010 | Michelle Fumagalli, UCSC | WILL BE HELD IN SERF 280
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